Understood Larry. That's why I used the word "also", except
I mistyped and it came out "lso"! :)

andy
Larry Purss wrote:

Andy

my comments were in the spirit of emphasizing the tradition of
psychoanalysis AS A SOCIOCULTURAL PRODUCT AND REFLECTION of the times
in which it was written. Through an historical lens Kirschner narrates
the roots of the tradition and therefore is contributing to the
developing reactions and critiques of psychoanalysis as an historical
product influential in the 20th century. The questioning and challenging
of its presuppositions in the human sciences has generated deeper
reflections on psychology as a tradition. Kirschner's history of
psychoanalysis [as an historically constituted product of its time] is
an historical sociocultural narrative. I mentioned her previous
writing to put in "context" Kirschner's background. I found it
interesting that her current book synthesizing sociocultural accounts
was written by an author with her previous interests.
Moscovici, in explicating his theory of social represention also has
written a book on the emergence and dissemination of psychoanalyis as an
historical sociocultural phenomena. These historical reflections are in
a similar spirit of exploring the notions of Western religion and how
the moral themes of Western religious traditions can continue to emerge
in contemporary human science narratives.
Larry
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 5:40 AM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net
<mailto:ablunden@mira.net>> wrote:

I've never been very much interested in psychoanalysis (too
unscientific for me) but Eli Zaretsky's "Secrets of the Soul" (a
history of psychoanalysis) I really enjoyed, lso emphasising
psychoanalysis as a product and reflection of the times rather than
as a viable theory of mind.
Andy
Larry Purss wrote:
PS,
Andy,for the historian in you, Suzanne Kirschner has written
another fascinating book on the cultural historical roots of
psychoanalysis that is an historical developmental account of
how Freud's theory is a continuation of our Western religious
heritage. A concrete example of how our "traditions that
constitute us as persons" emerge from specific concrete
historical circumstances. She has an interesting intellectual
background from which to co-author this new book on the
sociocultural turn in psychology.
Larry
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